Blank Page During Moodle Install

Blank Page During Moodle Install

by Ian Johnson -
Number of replies: 6
we are trying to install a development version onto windows 2008 server, we have setup php which appears fine and have apache setup - we can call our php info file up and everything is good

we then call up the moodle install - select our language, we get green passes for all php settings

we then enter our database details of the tables we have setup

we then get a blank page everytime no matter what

anyone had this and can shine some light on whats causing it

we have checked our apache and php logs and it shows nothing that could relate to this blank page

thanks
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Re: Blank Page During Moodle Install

by Tim Hunt -
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Try creating the config.php file by hand (copy config-dist.php and edit.)

If you still have problems, follow the instructions on Debugging about turning on debug output in the config.php file.
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Re: Blank Page During Moodle Install

by Jon Witts -
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Check your PHP Script Memory limit is high enough.

I had the same with my Ubuntu machine at home when trying to set up Moodle 2 test site... upped the limit in the php.ini file and the install went through fine.

Jon
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Re: Blank Page During Moodle Install

by H Hardman -
I've got the same problem, trying to install on Windows 7. I'm trying to set up a test/eval system on my own machine.

I upped the script memory limit from 40M to 100M in php.ini. Then I created the config file manually from config-dist.

Now I'm getting a database error (Database connection failed) so I guess the manual config.php isn't set up right.

The only setting that looks hinky is the www root. In the standard file, the www root is set to:
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://www.example.com/moodle';

How do you set it for localhost? (It didn't work when I did http://localhost/moodle or http://localhost/Moodle/server/moodle.)

Thx,
Harriett
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Re: Blank Page During Moodle Install

by H Hardman -
Previous attempt was with full package. Reinstalled by installing Xampp separately and then the standard package and it went fine.